This is a phone-level inventory of the currently reviewed Genç recordings in the Genç wordset. It is a descriptive inventory of the dataset, not a claim that every listed phone is contrastive in the language.
The inventory excludes recordings whose IPA still needs review in the current working data. Rows missing current orthography or IPA are also excluded, as are rows whose IPA still contains mixed practical-orthography symbols, parser artifacts, or word-initial/word-final double rr orthography that should be manually reviewed.
Dataset basis: 5178 Genç recordings in the export; 2361 recordings included in this inventory; 2817 recordings excluded from the inventory subset. The counts below are the number of occurrences of each segment in the included IPA transcriptions. Generated 2026-05-05 14:16 UTC.
Transcription policy applied here: all coronal stop phones in the current inventory are treated as dental. The reduced labialization-series coarticulated stop is represented as t̪͡p; extra-short bilabial-trill variants are not treated as separate inventory symbols in this draft. Modifier order is normalized to forms such as kʷʰ, t̪ʲʰ, and t̪ʷʰ. Stress marks, punctuation, and word boundaries are not counted as phonetic segments.
karlovaqʰaɹʎovaXwezleyirχʷɛzʎɛjɪɾma êya wilayet ra vûn qarlovama eja wilajet̪ʰ ɾa vun qʰaɹʎova
[ʜ]
3
Bû’hik ‘hâmûmûbuˈʜikʰ ˈħæmumuBı’hûk pılxınbɨˈʜukʰ pʰɨlˈχɨnBû’hik ‘hâmûmû ho ça da?buˈʜikʰ ˈħæmumu ho ˈt̪͡ʃad̪a
Outlier Phones With One Included Occurrence
These phones occur only once in the reviewed inventory subset. They are listed separately so that rare loanword phones, narrow allophones, and possible residual transcription issues do not visually dominate the core inventory.
Phone
Group
Example
[eː]
Vowels
Êyi baqlê barbûnyê.eji baqʰle baɹbuɲeː
[iʲ]
Vowels
Êyi siyêmin.eji siʲemin
[o̝]
Vowels
Ow yo yego.ow jo jɛgo̝
[u̥]
Vowels
Prânsû?pʰɾænsu̥
[ʊ]
Vowels
‘Umwinʕʊmʷɪn
[d̪͡bʲ]
Labialization-Series Coarticulates
Ow yo dwyaw.ow jo d̪͡bʲaw
[b̞̆ʷ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Bwımb̞̆ʷɨm
[d̪ʷ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
kerawa dwız ha kûm yo resım dac͡çɛrawa d̪ʷɨz ha kʰum jo rɛsɨm d̪a
[nʲ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Hûnyen hewrû rahunʲɛn hɛwɾu ɾa
[pʲʰ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Ow ho pyûnz ken wırde.ow ho pʲʰunz cʰɛn wɨɾd̪ɪ
[pʷ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Pwıdrê qwıcû ha ça da?pʷɨd̪ɾe qʷɨd̪ʒu ha t̪͡ʃad̪a
[sʲ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Kerga syêˈc͡çɛɾga sʲe
[t̪ʷʰ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Tâxtw ho ça da?t̪ʰæχt̪ʷʰ ho ˈt̪͡ʃad̪a
[zʲ]
Secondary-Articulation Consonants
Gwavzyer ha ça da?gwavˈzʲɛɾ ha ˈt̪͡ʃad̪a
[k̟ʰ]
Aspirated Consonants
Êyi faslyê wişkê.eji faslʲe wɪʃk̟ʰe
[sᵊ]
Fricatives
Supiyesᵊpʰijɪ
[r̆]
Rhotics, Laterals, And Glides
Rʐezilr̆ʐɛˈzɪl
[ʐ]
Other Phones
Rʐezilr̆ʐɛˈzɪl
Open Questions
This inventory is intentionally phonetic. Further work is needed to decide which surface phones should be analyzed as independent phonemes, allophones, loanword-specific realizations, or transcription conventions. The main open questions are the phonemic status of the labialization-series coarticulates, the extent of aspiration in the reduced t̪͡p type, and how much of the vowel variation reflects the recorded speaker’s idiolect versus broader Genç patterns.